Gail Collins, the New York Times columnist who was best known for a snarky book about how Texas has far too much influence over how the United States is run, turned her gimlet eye toward the civil space program.

Her column was a meandering look at the current crisis over which destination to pick for space exploration efforts going forward, with some side swipes against her favorite targets, Texas politicians such as Lamar Smith and Ted Cruz. Should be go to an asteroid (or rather, as the administration wants to do, bring it back) or go back to the moon. One gets the impression that Collins favors the former,

But what’s the rule for Yahoo? If somebody writes something and then sells it to Yahoo or AP, I don’t think they can release their own material here in full because they no longer own it.

We had a guy, Bob L-something who is on OC Register staff (paid) who would post stuff here in excerpt from OC Register. They own it, not him, so does he have to post his blog in its entirety here to pass your rules?

But what’s the rule for Yahoo? If somebody writes something and then sells it to Yahoo or AP, I don’t think they can release their own material here in full because they no longer own it.

We had a guy, Bob L-something who is on OC Register staff (paid) who would post stuff here in excerpt from OC Register. They own it, not him, so does he have to post his blog in its entirety here to pass your rules?

Gail Collins, the New York Times columnist who was best known for a snarky book about how Texas has far too much influence over how the United States is run, turned her gimlet eye toward the civil space program.

It is no wonder that leftist newspapers like the NYT are going under. Just about the entire paper's writings are tedious and predictable, in other words, boring.

The writers just make assertions based on opinion, with maybe a token fact once in awhile.

Better to read newspapers from the UK; they have substance.

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posted on 08/25/2013 3:29:28 PM PDT
by olezip
(Time obliterates the fictions of opinion and confirms the decisions of nature. ~ Cicero)

There are plenty of private space entrepreneurs now. Mining asteroids is one of the low hanging fruit for space development, so it won't take long to them to build an infrastructure to do it.

But it is interesting to focus on Obama's priorities with NASA, since NASA programs are one of the few programs has has cut. While he likes to claim government spending is an investment, he doesn't seem to feel this way regarding NASA. I have felt that this is because historically, the black civil rights movement has been against NASA spending.

"On the eve of the Apollo 11 launch, July 15, 1969, Abernathy arrived at Cape Canaveral with several hundred members of the poor people to protest spending of government space exploration, while many Americans remained poor. He was met by Thomas O. Paine, the Administrator of NASA, whom he told that in the face of such suffering, space flight represented an inhuman priority and funds should be spent instead to feed the hungry, clothe the naked, tend the sick, and house the homeless. Mr. Paine told Abernathy that the advances in space exploration were childs play compared to the tremendously difficult human problems of society, and told him that if we could solve the problems of poverty by not pushing the button to launch men to the moon tomorrow, then we would not push that button. On the day of the launch, Dr. Abernathy led a small group of protesters to the restricted guest viewing area of the space center and chanted, We are not astronauts, but we are people.

Ralph Abernathy was Martin Luther Kings successor as the head of the Southern Christian Leadership Conference.

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